The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-05-21
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RELIGION all wool and yard wide,''
is called for by Western exchange.
THE majority in Michigan against the
Prohibition Amendment is now definitely
fixed at 5,835.
IT is an interesting fact, says the Meth
odist Times, that there is now a larger
number of Jews in Palestine than at any
period since the days of our Lord. There
are more than $4,000 Jews in their father
land-almost the same number as re-
turned from the captivity in Babylon.
In 1876, the year in which the national
drink bill of Great Britain rose to its
highest point, that country spent lat
millions on intoxicating liquor; in 1885
the bill had declined to 1913 millions.
Taking into account the increase of pop
ulation the reduction is not twenty.four
but thirty-eight millions.
DIR. MoCosH, in his book recently pub
lished, and entitled Psychology: The
Cogitative Powers" very sensibly advises,
"For every novel devoured let there be
eaten and digested several books of his
tory or of biography, several books of
voyages and travels, several books of
good theology, with at least book or two
of science or philosophy"
PAUL GRoTTKAU, who has just been
found guilty of heading the socialist riots
in Milwaukee last summer, is an excel
lent specimen of the class which has re-
Gently undertaken the reorganization of
American society. He is Pole or Bohe-
milan, who has been little over year in
the country, and can speak no English;
but, nevertheless, felt quite equal to the
task of recasting American institutions.
The London Daily Telegraph recently
remarked: "Look where we will, evolu-
ton is actively manifested, making the
good better and the better best. If ma
ture energized in the contrary direction,
the pessimists might have more to say for
their dismal doctrines; but the testimony
of the uprise of life from low beginnings,
and of its rich expansions, is all in favor
OF some Divine far off event, toward which
the whole creation moves"
REV. DIR. EDWARD E. HALE finds the
danger and mischief of the labor agita-
ton in the right which it assumes to block
up the line Of promotion. The laborer,
he believes, should be made a workman
in the highest sense, and the line of pro-
motion in the industries always be kept
open. Here is food for thought, for the
tendency now is, to reduce the competent
mechanic down to the level of the poorest
hand who claims to have mastered the
trade.
SENATOR CoLQUITT, recently, in an in
terview with the Washington correspond
ent of the Voice, said: If we had waited
for constitutional prohibition in our one
hundred odd counties of Georgia that
have adopted prohibition, we would have
done nothing, and if we had organized
distinct party we would utterly have
failed. 1t is as much as 1 can do, as it
is, to keep my seat with the liquor men
against me. There is one thing do wish,
and that is that people would stop giving
heed to the everlasting false representa-
tons about the failure of prohibition in
Georgia and other States of the South.
They are utterly false"
THE Akron Beacon remarks: "What
with the Mccoy case at Portsmouth, the
attack upon the Doylestown marshal,
aud the attempt in behalf of the liquor in
terests to dynamite property at Water
vile, near Toledo, on account of endeav-
ors to secure or enforce such local prohi-
bition as the Dow law permits, the saloon
lists of this State are sowing to the wind
and will surely reap a whirlwind of popu-
lar indignation that win sweep their traffic
out of existence, if it is in the power of
human law to do such thing. The more
the liquor interest, by such resistance to
public sentiment expressed in mild laws,
dams up the tide of the general feeling
that the abuses of their ruin-working
traffic must be corrected and checked,
the more certain will be their destruction
when that tide gets beyond control"